Not Quite Dead Quotes

“I turn my eyes heavenward, asking silently of God if he listens to complaints about pain-in-the-ass men. He probably doesn’t. It would take up too much of his time.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“You should never defend yourself, girl. Those people who would believe you already know better and those who won’t aren’t listening anyway.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“On time is late, that’s right.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“not the ones that remind me that the person I’d dreamed I’d be is not the person the mirror says I’ve become.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“the temperature is, as Grams would have said, “hotter than two rabbits screwing in a wool sock.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“Hope is as painful as anything else, in the right dosage. “Millie,”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“Even though I don’t have Gramps’s faith, in that moment, I pray through my tears that if we have something more inside us than flesh and blood, and Gramps’s soul is leaving his body, that there’s someone out there to gather it up. Take care of him. Love him the way we do. Then”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“the temperature outside has risen to approximately ten degrees hotter than hell,”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“Maybe there’s never enough time. “Okay,”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“As though maybe making out with no other end had to be left behind in my youth, like everything else worth keeping. If”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“To do what our hearts desire, even when it’s not what the world expects—that maybe the mistake most people make is thinking that our lives are made to please anyone other than ourselves. What”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“As though with everything else in my life, the town means more to me than I ever did, ever could, to it. The”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“It’s pretty much announcing my surrender to the world, like when men wear sweatpants in public. It”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“He changed me, but if I’m being honest, I’m mostly angry that I let him. “Hey,”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“Of course, since I prefer no company, it’s not like anyone would have excited me. Mrs.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“Turning my back helps a bit more, and once the front door clicks shut behind me, I almost believe I’ll be able to shut out the painful days of my past as easily as the piercing sunlight.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“hotter than two rabbits screwing in a wool sock.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“It’s not long before his breaths space out, until I can count five or ten seconds in between, then twenty. Then one final gasp before they stop altogether. Even though I don’t have Gramps’s faith, in that moment, I pray through my tears that if we have something more inside us than flesh and blood, and Gramps’s soul is leaving his body, that there’s someone out there to gather it up. Take care of him. Love him the way we do.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“That’s what makes a place home, I suppose. The fact that all of the memories add up to the person you’ve become, or the one you wanted to be and might find the strength to be again.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“on a cracker,”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead